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Four-Foot Beavers Invade Town, Damage City Property and Trees

It sounds like the premise of some lost Ed Wood horror flick with a Hitchcock twist: waves of beavers scurrying through a West Sacramento, Calif. neighborhood, toppling trees and damaging public property.

Those residents may be living in the vicinity of as many as 30 wood-chewing rodents, according to city officials. The beavers first moved into a Bridgeway Lakes neighborhood in much smaller numbers three years ago, but have since multiplied and spread to other areas. And it sounds like at least a few are on the ginormous side of the gene pool.

“They can weigh upwards of 70 pounds and some of them, by the damage on the trees, were a good four feet tall,” said Kirtley, adding that the damage has been “on a massive scale” and that he believes the beavers have taken down as many as a dozen local trees.

How many of the bucktoothed culprits have been rounded up so far? Just half a dozen, reports KOVR-TV, though considerably more are said to still be on the loose.